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Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by mlejva »

I thought it would be interesting to see what are other people working on. Those projects of course might not be ready to be shown you can only describe them and the main problem though.

Project: I am building a neural network which should be able to generate few frames of the video given the preceding and following frames. Currently I am feeding the network with simple videos I have created where is only a single moving pixel. Since I do not have much experience with neural networks I thought this could be good start.

Problem: Up until now I have not realised how hard is to find simple video datasets.

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Post by wkoszek »

I'm building myself a publishing platform which I'd like to make available to others for $12/yr. It'd be a GUI for static-code generators, where you can write markdown in a browser, hit "publish", and Jekyll/Middleman will generate content for you + push the newly generated article to the GitHub repo. I'm spitting out tools, as a side-effect of that:

https://github.com/wkoszek/lastpass-ansible

https://github.com/wkoszek/ruby_packages

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Post by wingerlang »

I am basically taking "notes" in the form of an iOS application from language-learning material.

E.g. I needed a chart of some rules in the language, so I added it in the app. Needed a way to search substrings in a wordlist, added it to the app. Flashcards etc.

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Post by jasonkester »

Problem: My SaaS trialers either convert or expire without me really knowing why.

Solution: Collect data on every action that anybody does during a trial, Bucket finished trialers by "Converted" and "Expired". Visualize that data to find out what motivates trialers to convert. Run crazy ML magic on it to predict outcomes for individual trialers. Act on that information.

About half a day into building, it occurred to me that this is not in any way specific to the one product I was building it for, so I moved the API endpoint out to its own domain. There's a general purpose product there in beta now:

https://unwaffle.com

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Post by pattle »

I'm working a platform that gives athletes advanced stats and analysis on their activities by using their GPS data. Think Strava but aimed at the more serious athlete.

http://www.scinder.io

I'm now learning React Native to launch a mobile app and working on segments and routes functionality which is quite touch.

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Post by codegeek »

I am working on an Open Source Online Learning Platform. Think of it as Ed-x or Moodle alternative but technically more modern with focus on UI and UX. The idea is that it should be able to cater to multiple audiences including more traditional style LMS or simple entrepreneurs who want to setup courses and sell them online. The core will always be simple and light while there will be provisions for extensions if this thing becomes successful.

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Post by jmstfv »

Project: A website containing programming projects accompanied by explanations, unit tests and etc.. (a la tutorials) to help beginners to get off the ground quickly.

Audience: It is aimed at learners who already know the syntax of a language, but are unsure/unable to start a project of their own.

More info: I have written more about it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/62r1wr/i_...

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Post by hardcore96 »

I'm currently working on a webpage that describes central topics in digital communications, via short python programs and their generated plots, rather than stuffing one equation after the other. I'd like to extend it to more more simulations of wireless systems and in general write more content. Eventually, if people like it I can imagine creating an eBook out of it.

http://dspillustrations.com

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Post by swah »

pattle wrote: post #5

I'm working a platform that gives athletes advanced stats and analysis on their activities by using their GPS data. Think Strava but aimed at the more serious athlete. http://www.scinder.io I'm now learning React Native to launch a mobile app and working on segments and routes functionality which is quite touch.

I'm also learning RN - are you (planning on) sharing code with the web version (regular react)?
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